The Things They Carried
1990 · 256 pages
O'Brien lists what a platoon in Vietnam hauled around, down to the ounce, then tells war stories and takes them back. The invented ones carry the war more exactly than facts could.
★ 7.8
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Friday Night Lights
A Town, A Team, And A Dream
1990 · 367 pages
Bissinger spent the 1988 season in Odessa, Texas, where a whole town's self-worth rode on schoolboy football and one black star's ruined knee took his only way out. Odessa answered with death threats.
★ 6.4
The Great Game
1990 · 565 pages
Britain and Russia crept toward each other across Central Asia until two thousand miles between them became twenty. Hopkirk tells it through the officers who rode alone into Bukhara, Khiva, and Kabul.
★ 6.4
The Journalist and the Murderer
1990 · 163 pages
Every journalist knows what he does is morally indefensible, Malcolm opens, then proves it through a convicted murderer suing the writer who befriended him and delivered him to readers as a sociopath.
★ 5.3
The House of Morgan
An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
1990 · 812 pages
Four generations of one bank, from Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Chernow's Pierpont Morgan locks New York's bankers in his library until they agree to end the Panic of 1907.
★ 5.3
City of Quartz
Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
1990 · 512 pages
Los Angeles read as a machine for excluding people: Davis strips the sunshine myth to find speculators, bum-proof benches, and a police force patrolling from helicopters. Two years later the city burned.
★ 5.3
Devil in a Blue Dress
1990 · 240 pages
Los Angeles, 1948. Easy Rawlins, a Black veteran fired from the aircraft plant, takes a white man's hundred dollars to find a missing woman, and Mosley rebuilds postwar Watts around the search.
★ 5.1
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
1990 · 48 pages
You leave town in a yellow suit and hit the Lurch, the Slump, and the Waiting Place, where nothing happens. Seuss made the standard graduation gift out of a warning about failure.
★ 4.5